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...Civil War colonel ("the Boy Colonel of the West") who earned a Congressional Medal, became an Indian fighter in the '70s, a hero of the Spanish-American war, and Military Governor of the Philippines. He died dramatically of a heart attack while addressing a reunion of his old regiment in Milwaukee in 1912. Douglas MacArthur grew up at a succession of Army posts and, as a child at Fort Little Rock, was almost killed by an arrow during the last of the western Indian uprisings...
...muddy foxhole in central Korea crouched battlewise Colonel William Harris, commander of the 7th Cavalry Regiment. The colonel was unshaven and bone tired; his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep. A sodden G.I. blanket around his shoulders inadequately shielded him from the pouring rain. "This," said the colonel, "is the worst...
When a mass of Chinese soldiers burst out of a concealing curtain of brush and charged Company E, 19th U.S. Infantry Regiment, last Nov. 5, there seemed, in the first split second, nothing that any man could do to stop them. The men of the 19th were caught by surprise in scattered holes and ditches along a ridge near Chonghyon. The Chinese started their dash only 100 ft. from the 19th's most forward outpost...
...Pattons flared fiercely under hits. Two others struck mines. The column rolled into battered Munsan through vicious enemy rifle and machine-gun fire. Throughout the night, Reds to the north and east shelled and mortared paratroopers and rangers who were stalking the rear elements of a North Korean motorized regiment which had been retreating north when cut off by "Operation Tomahawk." The Red guns were still going throughout the next morning. Helicopters threshed in to dusty landings in the D.Z. and whirred up again with wounded men. In the sunlight, the red, blue, green, yellow and white cargo chutes...
...paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regiment floated to earth near Munsan, an armored force 30 miles away was moving to join up with them. With the overland operation was TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert. His report...